- It takes the Hubble telescope about 97 minutes to complete an orbit of the Earth. On average, the Hubble uses the equivalent amount of energy as 30 household light bulbs to complete an orbit.
- The two factories of the Jelly Belly Candy Company produces approximately 1,250,000 jelly beans an hour.
- The expression cooked “al dente” means “to the tooth.” What this means is that the pasta should be somewhat firm, and offer some resistance to the tooth, but should also be tender.
- A 25g milk chocolate bar contains 6 mg of caffeine.
- The fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth is called Arachibutyrophobia.
- Men in their early twenties shave an average of four times a week.
- A chicken with red earlobes will produce brown eggs, and a chicken with white earlobes will produce white eggs
- Not all polar bears hibernate; only pregnant females polar bears do.
- Five thousandths of a millimetre is the tolerance of accuracy at the LEGO mould factories.
- A meteor has only destroyed one satellite, which was the European Space Agency’s Olympus in 1993.
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